Gurr Johns has been listed as the art buyers in the The Times’ article, ‘The artworld’s little black book.’
Gurr Johns began life in 1914 as a neighbour to Christie’s in St James, valuing the collections of the great country houses of Ireland and Britain and helping to steward them to auction. In 2018 the owner and chairman Harry Smith hit the headlines when he spent £113 million at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, bulk-buying 13 paintings by Picasso on behalf of unnamed clients. The group now has offices in London, New York, Paris, Palm Beach, Chicago, Los Angeles, Delhi and Hong Kong and values about $10 billion of art, antiques and jewellery every year — for sales and acquisitions, as well as tax and estate planning, insurance, leasing and art finance.
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